Gone, but never forgotten.
Adrian Gilmore won’t be patrolling the sideline for the Shoreham-Wading River girls soccer team, but her everlasting effect on the program remains at the forefront of everything the Wildcats are doing this fall.
Gilmore led Shoreham-Wading River to six Suffolk Class A titles, three Long Island Class A championships and a state Class A crown while winning 165 games over her 14 seasons as the girls soccer coach. She turned the Wildcats into a perennial power, including guiding the team to the state Class A semifinals after winning its second straight Long Island Class A title last fall.
But on April 22, tragedy struck when Gilmore collapsed on school grounds. Gilmore, 42, died one day later of a brain aneurysm , according to her daughter, Kayla.
This fall,